Some reader reactions to Texas malpractice caps:
The best thing about the malpractice caps: According to the article, these changes all but ended lawyers’ ability to police hospitals and doctors for shoddy care. Thank goodness. Few lawyers have medical training, so they are simply not qualified to judge doctors or hospitals . . .. . . A no-fault system would be a good solution, where, if legal action were required, specially trained judges with access to the best information would hear these cases, render judgment and bring some equal justice to the system.
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Well, it’s the law of the land in Texas.
But there’s always other targets for the trial bar.
They can try for the fifty million for bad dry cleaning.
Actually, that was a judge who filed that case. Once again, you’re wrong. Doesn’t it get old?
I know full well he was a judge. Assuming the judge has a law degree, but even if not, it’s a possible new “ambulance” for you to chase.
Like the saying about lawyer jokes. Lawyers don’t think they’re funny, and non-lawyers don’t think they’re jokes.
I don’t imagine the dry cleaner thought that was funny. And as a doctor I’m not surprised to see it.
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